Essays in CriticismMacmillan and Company, 1883 - Всего страниц: 379 |
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... fierce intellectual life of our century , so serene ! " There are our young barbarians , all at play ! " And yet , steeped in sentiment as she lies , spreading her gardens to the moonlight , and whispering from her X PREFACE .
... fierce intellectual life of our century , so serene ! " There are our young barbarians , all at play ! " And yet , steeped in sentiment as she lies , spreading her gardens to the moonlight , and whispering from her X PREFACE .
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... the Philistines , compared with the warfare which this queen of romance has been wag- ing against them for centuries , and will wage after we are gone ? CONTENTS . I. THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM AT THE PRESENT PREFACE . xi.
... the Philistines , compared with the warfare which this queen of romance has been wag- ing against them for centuries , and will wage after we are gone ? CONTENTS . I. THE FUNCTION OF CRITICISM AT THE PRESENT PREFACE . xi.
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... century , and still followed in France , of print- ing a notice of this kind , - -a notice by a competent critic , -to serve as an introduction to an eminent author's works , might be revived among us with advantage . To introduce all ...
... century , and still followed in France , of print- ing a notice of this kind , - -a notice by a competent critic , -to serve as an introduction to an eminent author's works , might be revived among us with advantage . To introduce all ...
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... century , had about it in fact something pre- mature ; and that from this cause its productions are doomed , most of them , in spite of the sanguine hopes which accompanied and do still accompany them , to prove hardly more lasting than ...
... century , had about it in fact something pre- mature ; and that from this cause its productions are doomed , most of them , in spite of the sanguine hopes which accompanied and do still accompany them , to prove hardly more lasting than ...
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... century there was neither a national glow of life and thought , such as we had in the age of Elizabeth , nor yet a culture and a force of learning and criticism such as were to be found in Germany . Therefore the creative power of ...
... century there was neither a national glow of life and thought , such as we had in the age of Elizabeth , nor yet a culture and a force of learning and criticism such as were to be found in Germany . Therefore the creative power of ...
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Стр. 325 - Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way. 9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.) 10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go.
Стр. 146 - If Thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss : O LORD, who may abide it?
Стр. 347 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Стр. xi - And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading PREFACE. xi her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection...
Стр. 365 - From my brother Severus, to love my kin, and to love truth, and to love justice; and through him I learned to know Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, Dion, Brutus; and from him I received the idea of a polity in which there is the same law for all, a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed...
Стр. 19 - Its business is to do this with inflexible honesty, with due ability ; but its business is to do no more, and to leave alone all questions of practical consequences and applications, questions which will never fail to have due prominence given to them.
Стр. 213 - Praised be my Lord for our sister, the death of the body, from whom no man escapeth. Woe to him who dieth in mortal sin. Blessed are they who are found walking by thy most holy will, for the second death shall have no power to do them harm. Praise ye and bless the Lord, and give thanks unto him and serve him with great humility.
Стр. 18 - By keeping aloof from what is called " the practical view of things ; " by resolutely following the law of its own nature, which is to be a free play of the mind on all subjects which it touches.
Стр. 21 - I look around me and ask what is the state of England? Is not property safe? Is not every man able to say what he likes? Can you not walk from one end of England to the other in perfect security? I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last.
Стр. 366 - What hast thou now in thy thoughts ? with perfect openness thou mightest immediately answer, This or That; so that from thy words it should be plain that everything in thee is simple and benevolent, and such as befits a social animal, and one that cares not for thoughts about pleasure or sensual enjoyments at all, nor has any rivalry or envy and suspicion, or anything else for which thou wouldst blush if thou shouldst say that thou hadst it in thy mind.